Honkai: Strijder (Honkai Impact 3 Male MC)

Chapter 70: The Essence of Soulium

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"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me with such a strange look in your eyes?"

Sigurd raised his eyes and saw Otto's expression, so he asked.

Otto shook his head.

"Nothing much, I just feel... we have so many similarities."

"...Don't overthink it. I won't become someone like you."

"I hope so too...."

Otto sighed deeply.

What kind of person was he? A madman, a traitor, an executioner, a warlord, an extremely sinful man, not worth sparing, someone that would end up in hell if there is one.

He is the type of person that Kallen would hate the most.

Since the day Kallen left, everything had changed.

Or maybe nothing had changed at all.

He was now just a demon who had once willingly been bound by the light, only now had started to show his true nature after losing that radiance.

Otto hadn't looked back at his actions or even thought about right and wrong or justice for a very long time.

He knew that he was standing in the quagmire of darkness, and he couldn't be cleansed anymore.

Perhaps, when Kallen opened her eyes again, it would be the moment he completely sank into darkness.

But none of this mattered.

All Otto sought in this life was to see - And if possible - Be with her again.

Compared to Kallen, everything, including notions of justice and protecting the world, and even life itself, was insignificant.

Otto's lips curled up, suppressing the overwhelming longing that threatened to drive him insane, and instead, he adopted a casual and lazy tone.

"So, what do you think of Soulium?"

"It's a material composed of nanobots, capable of self-repair and intelligent adaptation to various environments. All in all, the technology is highly advanced, almost miraculous, making one question whether it could only exist in the age of interstellar travel. But..."

"But what?"

"But, when it comes to nanobots, I have my own ideas. You, Dr. Einstein, Dr. Tesla, at least one of you should be able to research it. If it's just the factor of nanobots, it wouldn't have such powerful capabilities, and it wouldn't still be obtained only through archaeology without mass production."

Sigurd furrowed his brow slightly.

His intellectual superiority allowed him to easily see the starting point and endpoint of all knowledge, as well as the paths in between.

So, even the groundbreaking theory of information sources, when proposed, was something he understood instantly, a matter of time and efficiency.

However, with Soulium, the deeper aspects couldn't be discerned directly. He had to rely on speculation and fit one possibility after another, which was not an easy task.